Excerpt from The Courtship of Miles Standish In arranging Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish for the amateur stage, the attempt has been made to adhere to the original as closely as possible. We have placed in brackets those portions of the poem which, though not a part of the drama, give Mr. Longfellow's own conceptions of the surroundings and feelings of the actors. We have tried to make our descriptions of costumes historically accurate, and have been actuated throughout by a desire to be truthful to history and to the spirit of the poem. It seems to us that children and grown people are likely to learn more, both from a literary and from an historical standpoint, by becoming familiar with connected portions of a beautiful poem like this than by learning shorter pieces of poetry which, though excellent in themselves, do not form parts of a complete whole. We believe the plot of the play to be so interesting that, for the sake of the story alone, the play will be eagerly listened to at School Exhibitions and Private Theatricals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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